Thomas William Fry Cherry
1872 Born in Waterford, Ireland.
1891 A marine engineer's student, living with his aunt Hannah in Newcastle upon Tyne[1]
1894/5 Two patents on use of taps and use of siphones
1897 Married Maria Rosetta Mackesy in Dublin[2]
1904 of Newcastle upon Tyne, patent "improvements in or relating to gas engines".
Presumably this was the basis for the gas engine[3] offered by the Holzapfel Marine Gas Power Syndicate
1911 A marine engineer (superintending construction), lived in Tynemouth[4]
1960 Died on the Isle of Man[5]